Rapid prototyping, 'empowerment' blamed in DC-XA crash
Failure to consider operations in McDonnell Douglas rapid-prototyping guidelines and an approach that "empowered" ground personnel without putting anyone in charge led to the loss last year of NASA's DC-XA "Clipper Graham" flying testbed, an agency investigation board found. The subscale single...
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